Mansion House Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1800s.
Epaulettes were worn on the shoulders up until 1802,after which chevrons were worn as replacements,this fact helping to provide an approximate latest possible date for the painting to have been executed.
The officers face is well painted and clearly shows afew days of facial hair stubble growth.with a mole on his right cheek.
We consider the portrait to be of a Lieutenant or a Lieutenant
Colonel in rank based on the gold braided shoulder epaulettes.
UNIFORMS RANKS & REGIMENTS
Prior to 1707 colonels of regiments made their own arrangements for the manufacture of uniforms under their command. This ended when a royal warrant of 16 January 1707 established a Board of General Officers to regulate the clothing of the army. Uniforms supplied were to conform to the "sealed pattern" agreed by the board.
From an early stage red coats were lined with contrasting colours and turned out to provide distinctive regimental facings (lapels, cuffs and collars). Examples were blue for the 8th Regiment of Foot, green for the 5th Regiment of Foot, yellow for the 44th Regiment of Foot and buff for the 3rd Regiment of Foot. 1747 saw the first of a series of clothing regulations and royal warrants that set out the various facing colours and distinctions to be borne by each regiment.[10] An attempt at standardisation was made following the Childers Reforms of 1881,
ABOUT THE ARTIST (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Born 13 April 1769
Bristol
Died 7 January 1830 (aged 60) London
Nationality English
Field Painting
Movement Romanticism
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.
Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper.
At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790.
He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830.
Self-taught, he was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint.
He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820.
In 1810 he acquired the generous patronage of the Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint portraits of allied leaders for the Waterloo chamber at Windsor Castle, and is particularly remembered as the Romantic portraitist of the Regency.
Lawrence's love affairs were not happy (his tortuous relationships with Sally and Maria Siddons became the subject of several books) and, in spite of his success, he spent most of life deep in debt.
He never married. At his death, Lawrence was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has been partially restored in more recent ones.
FRAME:
The frame is an original carved giltwood example,
still retaining the gold leafed finish,with some older minor slight losses over painted,but still looking respectable
MEASUREMENTS:
HEIGHT : 40 Inches Inc Frame
WIDTH : 35 Inches Inc Frame
CONDITION:
The portrait is in very good condition and has in past years been carefully cleaned,and still retains the original painted suefaces.
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Oil Portrait Painting Manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence of a British Army Officer in His Red Coat Tunic Uniform Dating (1795-1802) Late 18th-early 19th Century English School in a Magnificent Decorative Gilt-wood Frame 35 X 40 Inches
